placeszen in the berkshiresArchitect Peter Rose creates a serene, understated new buildingat health and wellness center KripaluWritten by WILLIAM MORGAN | Photograph by FRED COLLINS

Peter rose has created many notable museums and academic buildings, but in recent years he has also designed some of the most thoroughly satis- fying houses in New England. The Cambridge,
Massachusetts, architect’s work on the Annex dormitory at
the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health near Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, is essentially an extension of his philosophy
of home design in a thoughtful combination of institutional
requirements and spiritual needs. It is the epitome of the
interrelationship between shelter and landscape.

the march of concrete columns
supporting the roof over the passageway
that connects Shadowbrook to the new
Annex at Kripalu Center for Yoga &
Health creates a rhythm recalling a
monastery cloister. The deep overhang
shields this hallway from the summer
sun, but accepts winter’s lower rays.